Brief Life History of Gertrude
When Gertrude Farmer was born on 6 June 1898, in Kentucky, United States, her father, Leander H. Farmer, was 23 and her mother, Rebecca Ledford, was 23. She married Freeland Harris on 28 December 1915, in Harlan, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Cranks Creek, Harlan, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Bell, Kentucky, United States in 1930. She died on 29 June 1977, in Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in United States.
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- Gertie Harris in household of Freeman Harris, "United States Census, 1930"
- Gertie Farmer, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Gertie Farmer in entry for William Henry Harris and Elsie Marie Hobbs, "Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
Name Meaning
English: occupational name from Middle English fermo(u)r, fermer and Anglo-Norman French fermer (Old French fermier, medieval Latin firmarius). The term denoted in the first instance a tax farmer, one who undertook the collection of taxes, revenues, and imposts, paying a fixed (Latin firmus) sum for the proceeds, and only secondarily someone who rented land for the purpose of cultivation; it was not applied to an owner of cultivated land before the 17th century.
Irish: Anglicized (part translated) form of Gaelic Mac an Scolóige ‘son of the husbandman’, a rare surname of northern and western Ireland.
Americanized form (translation into English) of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered form Therrien . Compare Pharmer .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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